Download your August 2025 Performance Score Reports for the FY 2026 Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program from iQIES.

• The reports include the incentive payment multiplier CMS will apply to your Part A claims. For FY 2026 claims payments, we’ll multiply the adjusted federal per diem rate by your incentive payment multiplier.

What to know: Starting in the FY 2026 program year, CMS is expanding the SNF VBP Program to assess performance on multiple quality measures rather than a single measure of all-cause hospital readmissions. Performance is based on 4 quality measures:

1. SNF 30-day all-cause readmission
2. SNF health care-associated infections requiring hospitalization
3. Total nursing staff turnover
4. Total nurse staffing hours per resident day

Submit corrections until August 31. See the Confidential Feedback Reporting & Review and Corrections webpage for more information.

Questions?

• Contact iqies@cms.hhs.gov about report access.
• Contact SNFVBPquestions@cms.hhs.gov about the program.